Sec. 1614. NON-GEOSTATIONARY ORBIT SATELLITE CONSTELLATIONS

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## SEC. 1614 NON-GEOSTATIONARY ORBIT SATELLITE CONSTELLATIONS ###

(a)Report Not later than 180 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Defense, in consultation with the Secretaries of the military departments and the heads of the Defense Agencies, shall submit to the congressional defense committees a report on current commercial satellite communication initiatives, including with respect to new non-geostationary orbit satellite technologies that the Department of Defense has employed to increase satellite communication throughput to existing platforms of the military departments currently constrained by legacy capabilities. ###

(b)Matters Included The report under subsection

(a)shall include the following: ####

(1)A potential investment strategy concerning how to operationalize commercial satellite communication capabilities using non-geostationary orbit satellites across each of the military departments, including— #####

(A)requisite funding required to adequately prioritize and accelerate the integration of such capabilities into the warfighting systems of the departments; and #####

(B)future-year spending projections for such efforts that align with other satellite communication investments of the Department of Defense. ####

(2)An integrated satellite communications reference architecture roadmap for the Department of Defense to achieve a resilient, secure network for operationalizing commercial satellite communication capabilities, including through the use of non-geostationary orbit satellites, across the Department that is capable of leveraging multi-band and multi-orbit architectures, including requirements that enable maximum use of commercially available technologies.